Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A male teacher in charge of a residence hall at a school.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The master or head of a house or household.
- n. In English public schools, a master having supervision and control of the boys residing in one of the houses or halls belonging to the school.
Wiktionary
- n. A teacher who is in charge of a house at a boarding school
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse.
WordNet 3.0
- n. teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse
Examples
“His authority did not depend on bullying," recalls his housemaster, Rockwell.”
“(Though years later, reading the autobiography, Abu suddenly recalled his housemaster Mr. Wilson ...).”
“Jonathan Bailey as his sole protector and Nicholas Farrell as his clerical housemaster provide exemplary support in a play that stirs disquieting memories of adolescent angst.”
“It is staffed by "guardians" who have the quasi-parental function of the boarding school housemaster or mistress: these worthies bear the knowledge of their charges' fate as best they can.”
“As we entered Mogg House (Gordon Clifton-Mogg, housemaster), the weight of the nineteenth century settled around my shoulders like a shroud.”
“My father shook hands with our welcoming committee as if he, not I, were matriculating, and a few moments of chat with headmaster and housemaster ensued.”
“It acts more like a housemaster in a progressive borstal.”
““Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.””
“On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.””
“In a panic, Roald went to his housemaster for advice.”
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